Preface
Abbreviations
1 Introd uction
1.1 Prehistory
1.2 The Case for String Theory
1.3 A Stringy Historical Perspective
1.4 Conventions
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2 Classical String Theory
2.1 The Point Particle
2.2 Relativistic Strings
2.3 Oscillator Expansions
2.3.1 Closed strings
2.3.2 Open strings
2.3.3 The Virasoro constraints
Bibliography
Exercises
3 Quantization of Bosonic Strings
4 Conformal Field Theory
5 Scattering Amplitudes and Vertex Operators
6 String in Background Fields
7 Superstrings and Supersymmetry
8 D-branes
9 Compactifications and Supersymmetry Breaking
10 Loop Corrections to String Effective Couplings
11 Duality Connection and Nonperturbative Effects
12 Black Holes and Entropy in String Theory
13 The Bulk/Boundary Correspondence
14 String Theory and Matrix Models
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
